Christine Blasey Ford

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  9-3-18
  

  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (a historian) drops a bombshell on the debate over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

  "I urged the president to nominate a different individual," Sasse said. "I urged the president to nominate a woman."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-2-18
  

  How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s

  And why it shouldn't.  For one thing, the FBI never talked to — or even knew to look for — four potential witnesses who had knowledge of Anita Hill’s complaints about Thomas.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-30-18
  

  Women are deeply divided on Brett Kavanaugh

  by Michelle Nickerson and Emily Suzanne Johnson

  Here’s why.

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  9-30-18
  

  Kavanaugh's Yale classmate, historian Charles Ludington, says judge was a heavy drinker

  Kavanaugh was “a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker,” in college, says the North Carolina State University professor.

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• 9-28-18
  

  On the Supreme Court, Difficult Nominations Have Led to Historical Injustices

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in U.S. history.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9-24-18
  

  Will Democrats Regret Weaponizing the Judiciary?

  by Matthew Pritchard

  Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

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• 9-25-18
  

  No, Christine Blasey Probably Isn’t Behaving Like the Children Who Leveled False Accusations in the Salem Witch Trials

  by Tony Fels

  A Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Lance Morrow is off-base.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-25-18
  

  What happens when women talk to Congress about sex

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  They’re repeatedly ignored.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-25-18
  

  "A high-tech lynching"

  How Clarence Thomas’s fury saved his Supreme Court nomination

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-24-18
  

  Anita Hill's Testimony Didn't Stop a Supreme Court Confirmation…

  But It Did Affect Election Results

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  9-24-18
  

  Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Christine Blasey Ford and the historical fallacy

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The historical fallacy: Because something happened many times before, it’s happening again.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  The scathing ad 1,600 black women bought to oppose Clarence Thomas

  On Nov. 17, 1991, more than 1,600 African American women, outraged by the Senate’s mistreatment of Anita Hill, took out an ad in the New York Times with the headline: “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-18-18
  

  No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991

  The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-18
  

  Echoes of Anita Hill, but in a Different Era for Women

  Now it is Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh who faces a hearing to address explosive accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.